Skillet Chocolate Chip Cookie

Do yourself a favor. Go to the flea market or Home Goods or whatever and buy yourself a small, 8 inch cast iron pan. Do it for no other reason than to make yourself a giant skillet chocolate chip cookie. If you want to be fancy, make sure you also have some vanilla ice cream to put on top.

When I lived in LA there was a restaurant chain called BJ’s that would make something called Pizooki. It was a hot deep dish cookie with ice cream on top, and you’d eat it out of the pan. It felt special to that restaurant. Then, my husband and I came across this smallish cast iron pan, and realized that we didn’t need to fly to California to make pizooki. We could make it ourselves, in our house, without the judgement of other restaurant patrons while we filled our faces.

This skillet chocolate chip cookie recipe is so easy, it can really be one of those “I’m in the mood for a cookie” type of recipes. And at the end of the day, you can say “I just had one cookie.” It doesn’t matter if you actually at a giant cookie with ice cream on top.

Because this recipe doesn’t involve making tiny, messy balls from dough, this skillet chocolate chip cookie is also great to make with your kids for Santa, if you’re into Santa these days. I don’t know what the Christmas world is about anymore. If it’s still about cookies, this works and it doesn’t take all your time, patience and kindergarten school master voice.

So, how about it? Make this skillet chocolate chip cookie for Santa? Or yourself? Pin the pic below!